Ten Years After - Stonedhenge
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Free Music Review: stonedhenge
Hit: 5 Stars
what can i tell you, about this cd. isbeautifull as any ten years after cd. I JUST LOVE THIS GUIS, do not miss this, is autentic.Free Music Review: Not the Ten Years After most people would like to remember.
Hit: 2 Stars
Most people, when asked about Ten Years After, remember them as the boogie-rock band that shook up Woodstock with "I'm Going Home." What a lot of people fail to realize is that they had a lot of other great tunes and some really killer albums too.
Just not this one.
A lot of Ten Years After fans consider this one their worst. I have to agree with them. Before the breakthrough of Ssssh, the band had 2 albums under their belt that were very promising. This album seems to break that promise. Most of the material sounds either uninspired, quiet, or just messed up. The first track, Going To Try, is very scizophrenic, as it doesn't decide where it wants to go. There are also 4 solo tracks by each member that are just filler tracks, nothing more. I do like the guitar solo piece just becuase it's a perfect beginning into their live version of I Just Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes. On this album, though, it just sounds dead and rambling.
Other tracks like A Sad Song and No Title just don't seem to pick up at all. The highlights on this album are few and far-between. Woman Trouble, while not a very exciting track, is very reminiscent of the early jazz of Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, and Django Reinhardt. It's a good track on this cd, but compared to the rest of their catalogue, it's not that noticable. Hear Me Callin', though....great song. Very nice use of overdriven bass, with some fantastic rockabilly licks from Alvin. Also, Speed Kills is a wonderful fast 12-bar boogie that unfortunatly ends on a weird note.
The bonus tracks don't add much either, except for the fantastic 14-minute Boogie On, which appeared on the compilation Alvin Lee and Friends in 1974.
I wouldn't reccomend this album to first time Ten Years After listeners. Hell, I wouldn't reccomend it to diehards. 2 good songs does not make a good album. I'd say download the 3 good songs and burn them onto another Ten Years After album for a nice-rounded compilation. Avoid this one, it's a bit of a downer.
Free Music Review: "Hear Me Calling" for you to get the CD W/bonus tracks
Hit: 4 Stars
As the author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent" and a former radio disc-jockey, I am often asked to write and or discuss various recordings from the 60's and 70's.
"Stonedhenge" is one of the rock and roll records that will never have a definitive rating. Why? Glad you asked. The esoteric material and the way the order of the songs were not decided on continuity it sounds as if this was a record of unreleased material and not an actual studio recording. To the existing fan this actually put a bit of mystique to the music and after a few listenings they saw beauty in the disjointed musical styles. For those new to the band they didn't have the patience to make this their first purchase and rightly so.
It would be hard to fathom the new comer following along as the drums play "Three Blind Mice" and then get hit with the highly spirited "No Title." If you have played "A Space In Time" or "Sssh" until the clicks and pops are part of the musical fabric you can fully appreciate what the group went through to be creative and chancy at the same time.
Owners of at least one Ten Years After album in their collection with an hour to digest the many roads you'll travel, don't let this pass you by.
"Woman Trouble", "Here Me Calling", "No Title" will satisfy your urge for the Alvin Lee style of blues and "Speed Kills" has the energy as a rock and roll tune to keep you coming back for more. With the inclusion of bonus material this will look nice along with "Cricklewood Green."
4 stars for the TYA fan and 3 if you are coming aboard today!
Enjoy the music and be well,
Craig Fenton
Author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent"
Free Music Review: not bad but not great!
Hit: 3 Stars
this is an ok TYA album not as good as some others still worth buying if you are a hard core TYA fanFree Music Review: Psychedelia & The Blues
Hit: 5 Stars
These expanded remastered TYA releases are all great for their fans and certainly add a lot to the old releases as far as additional tracks with beautiful packaging and wonderful ruminations and photos with commentary by Ric Lee,their drummer..their debut was a pretty traditional moody self titled blues rock cd, their 2nd was a wonderful exciting Blues Jazzier live set called Undead recorded in a small UK club atmosphere, while this experimental 3rd offering brings the band into the studio creating a rich sound scape of some great rocking blues songs,traces of jazz,scat,all mixed with a touch of psychedelia..The CD is sounds well produced and ranks in style the likes of early Pink Floyd,Soft Machine and Traffic in it's mode of experimentation.
The bonus selections and inclusion of I'm Going Home and an additional version of the rocker Hear Me Calling (later covered by Slade on their Alive album) makes this a wonderful release from this band of blues travellers whose Woodstock appearance and love of the blues with serious musicianship throughout their live puts them in a category of one of the great UK bands of the day.
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